First Quarter Review

So far in this semester I started out behind by not really taking this class to seriously, but I have since then improved in my ways and have begun to work harder at this class. I have already started on my senior project which is a collaboration with several other students in this class and will be a video as a finished project. Next grading period I expect myself to start working harder at doing assignments correctly and diligently. I will not hover procrastinate like I did this beginning and fall behind. What I think will help out people the most in this class is being able to see a visual of how others think of where they are at in the course. When I saw that I was at the bottom of the list on Ming's BoB I I realized i had to change something in what I was doing or else things would not turn out that well. So maybe we should have a more visual board that everyone can see that is also really easy to access and update.

Literature Terms 109-133

Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement toward climax.

Romanticism: movement in western culture begining in the eighteenth and pearking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of indivduals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

Setting: the time and place in whcih events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur. 

Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a 
character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.


Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.


Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.


Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.


Symbol: something which stands for something else; yet has a meaning of its own.


Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.


Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.


Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence. 


Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).


Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disaproved: the main idea.


Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.


Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. "dry" or "dead pan"     

BOB I

Ming Chen: http://mchenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Danielle Galindo: http://danig14.blogspot.com/
Reed Conforti: http://rconfortirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Samantha Garrison: http://sgarrisonrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Valerie Gonzalez: http://vgonzalezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Megan Hardisty: http://mhardistyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Abby Kuhlman: http://akuhlmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Josh Ng: http://jngrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Isiah Mabansag: http://isiahmabansag.blogspot.com/ 
Conor McNamara: http://www.csmrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Erika Snell: http://www.esnellrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Nathan Oh: http://norhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Matthew Patel: http://mpatelrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Felicitas Ruiz: http://fruizrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 

Justin Thompson http://jthompson2rhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Dulce Vargas: http://dvargasrhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/  
Ashley Wilburn: http://awilburnrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Chanel Yamaguchi: http://cyamaguchirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Devon Tomooka: http://dtomookarhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Tanner Tuttle: http://ttuttlerhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/ 
Ryunhee Kim: http://rkimrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Travis Knight: http://tmkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Cassidy Ashlock:  http://cashlockrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Sebastian Guillen: http://sguillenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Alicia Hernandez: http://ahernandezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Haleigh Jones: http://hjonesrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/  
Alex Lane: http://alanerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Troy Prober: http://tproberrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Brady Redman:http://bredmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Jason Reinwald: http://www.jreinwaldrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
August Blundell: http://ablundellrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Kristofer Green: http://kgreenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Brittany Cunningham: http://bcunninghamrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Carly Koertge: http://ckoertgerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Bailey Nelson: http://bnelsonrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

Conner Patzman: http://cpatzmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Karianne LaPlante: http://kariannelaplantesblog.blogspot.com/
Lacey Mougeotte: http://lmougeotterhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/
Colleen Livingstone: http://clivingstonerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com

Sorry I do not have the links working right now, the color matching was not working. Just going to have to do it the old fashion way and copy and paste the links.

I AM HERE!

I know it may seem like I have been lacking in my responsiblities of posting (which is true) I am trying to catch back up to what I need to be at. Outside of this class however I have been playing a lot of tennis getting ready for my last season this year. I have also started my senior project with a group of people that I have made lots of videos for other classes and we are working on this one to make all of them seem trivial. Lets hope I can get back into the swing of things before its too late.

Literature Terms 82-108

Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox

Pacing: rate of movement; tempo

Parable: a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth

Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist

Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness

Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake

Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas

Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose

Poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment

Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing

Postmodernism:  literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness, and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary

Prose:  the ordinary from of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern

Protagonist:  the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

Pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications

Purpose:  the intended result wished by an author

Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is

Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus

Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead

Resolution:  a point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement

Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis

Rhetoric:  use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade

Rhetorical Question:  question suggesting its own answer, or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion

Literature Terms 56-81

Genre:  a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content

Gothic Tale:  a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence

Hyperbole:  an exaggerate statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point

Imagery:  figure of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the sense

Implication:  a meaning or understanding that is to be arrived at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author

Incongruity:  the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other

Inference:  a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to the facts already available

Irony:  a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening

Interior Monologue:  a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experiences of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue

Inversion: words out of order for emphasis

Juxtaposition:  the intentional placement of a words, phrase, sentence or paragraph to contrast with another nearby

Lyric:  a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings

Magical Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everday with the marvelous or magical

Metaphor:  an analogy comparing two different things imaginatively; can be  extended, controlling, or mixed

Metonymy:  literally "name changing" a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of the thing

Mode of Discourse:  argument, narration, description, and exposition

Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem

Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece

Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature

Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world

Narrative:  a story or description of events

Narrator:  one who narrates or tells a story

Naturalism:  extreme form of realism

Novelette/Novella:  short story; short prose narrative, often satirical

Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person

Literature Terms 31-56

Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others

Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth

Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things

Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words

Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education

Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles

Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting

Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, morals, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time

Epigram: witty aphorism

Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone

Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character, characteristics

Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild, or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt

Evocative: a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality

Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation

Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

Fable:  a short simple story, usuall with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth

Fallacy: from Latin word "to deceive", a false or misleading notion, belief or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound

Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax

Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue

Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile)

Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events

Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more promient

Folk Tale: a story passed on by word of mouth

Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planing" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away

Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme

Literature Terms 6-30

Analogy: a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them

Analysis: a method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny

Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the begining of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Anecdote: a very short story used to illustrate a point

Antagonists: a person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narrative

Antithesis: a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

Aphorism: a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life

Apologia: a defense or justification of some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology

Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly

Argument(ation): the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or falsity of an idea in proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself

Assumption: the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true

Audience: the intended listener or listeners

Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character's personality

Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order

Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served

Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome (tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance)

Cliche: a phrase or situation overused within society

Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the point of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved

Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation

Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed to provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter

Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension

Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition

Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity

Denotation: plain dictionary definition

Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion

Literature Terms 1-5

Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point


Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words


Allusion:  a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize


Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation


Anachroism:  something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time